Nyake Surname
Approximately 1,708 people bear this surname
Nyake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,603 | 1:12,956 | 1,762 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| South Africa | 20 | 1:2,708,885 | 106,094 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Sierra Leone | 4 | 1:1,772,408 | 958 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
The alternate forms: Nyakè (1) are calculated separately.
Nyake (70) may also be a first name.
Nyake Demographics
Average Nyake Salary in
South Africa
R 21,540
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Nyake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyake Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nyake is found most in Cameroon. It can be found in the variant forms: Nyakè. Click here to see other potential spellings of Nyake.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyake? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 235,556th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 4,266,713 people. The last name Nyake is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Nyake reside; 95 percent reside in Central Africa and 94 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Nyake is also the 1,162,016th most frequently held given name internationally. It is borne by 70 people.
This surname is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 1,603 people, or 1 in 12,956. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Littoral Region, where 62 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 17 percent are found and Centre Region, where 14 percent are found. Other than Cameroon this surname exists in 18 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found and South Africa, where 1 percent are found.
Nyake Last Name Statistics demography
Nyake earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 90.94% less than the national average, earning R 21,540 per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nyake
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